Hyphenate two or more words serving together as an adjective, prefixes to proper names, suffixes to single capital initials (so X-ray, but x ray), compound words expressing numbers.
John Hamrick
Umetco Minerals
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From: Lew Helgeson[SMTP:lewhelgeson@helge.com]
Reply To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:08 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Spelling
Help me make peace with our typist!
We have a discussion regarding hyphenation of certain phrases. Which of
these phrases is the correct form:
1. Leak-testing or Leak testing
2. NIST-traceable of NIST traceable
Thanks
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